This paper deals with the semiotic phenomenon of iconicity and its relation to the communication of emotional concepts in cologne advertisements. As a matter of fact, scents have neuropsychological effects on memory processes and the processing of emotions in the human limbic system. I will point out that there also is a close sign-based relationship between iconic representations of emotional ...

This paper describes how an intelligent agent can locate itself from iconic memory of scenes. Omnidirectional images of the environment at a number of reference points are memorized as signs of the local areas. Similarity of the omnidirectional views at different locations in a small area decreases with their distance. The agent can thereby nds the current local area by examining the similariti...

The Span of Apprehension task represents a putative cognitive vulnerability marker for schizophrenia. To investigate the nature of the scanning deficits on the Span of Apprehension shown by patients with paranoid schizophrenia a wide visual angle partial report version of the task was administered to 18 paranoid schizophrenics and 18 normal controls. An analysis of scan paths, based upon target...

To work productively in an interactive workspace, users need effective interfaces to seamlessly share, annotate, and juxtapose digital information across heterogeneous devices. Building on an existing infrastructure for interactive workspaces, we developed an interaction design that uses an iconic representation of a workspace to enable application relocation and input redirection tasks to be p...

To assess priming by iconic gestures, we recorded EEG (at 29 scalp sites) in two experiments while adults watched short, soundless videos of spontaneously produced, cospeech iconic gestures followed by related or unrelated probe words. In Experiment 1, participants classified the relatedness between gestures and words. In Experiment 2, they attended to stimuli, and performed an incidental recog...

A weightless neural state machine acting as an exploratory automaton changes its position in a simulated toy world by its own actions. A popular question is asked: how might the automaton ‘become conscious of’ the effect of its own actions? Here we develop previously defined iconic learning in such weightless machines so that this knowledge can be achieved. Weightlessness, iconic learning are e...

A series of experiments demonstrated that a 5-s train of clicks that have been shown in previous studies to increase the subjective duration of tones they precede (in a manner consistent with "speeding up" timing processes) could also have an effect on information-processing rate. Experiments used studies of simple and choice reaction time (Experiment 1), or mental arithmetic (Experiment 2). In...

By the late 19th century, tests of adults' short-term visual memory—how much one retains from a briefly presented display—had acquired a familiar character: An alphanumeric array was presented and then removed, and participants were asked to report the items they had seen (Wundt, 1912). These whole-report tests revealed memory capacities of three to four items (Cattell, 1886; Sperling, 1960). H...